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E-Verify Bill Passes Out of Judiciary Committee

By: westcoastpatriette (Diary)  |  September 26th, 2011 at 03:11 PM  | 

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In a 22-13 party line vote, the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday passed legislation by Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) that would require all employers to use the E-Verify employment verification program.  The legislation, entitled “Legal Workforce Act” (H.R. 2885) includes limiting the number of documents employers may accept to verify employee eligibility and increases the penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens or fail to use E-Verify.

In May of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a similar bill passed by Arizona giving states the green light to pass mandatory E-Verify legislation.  As a result of that decision, the business community, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is now pushing for a federal mandatory E-Verify bill to make the system uniform across the nation.

Given the super-hot nature of the politics surrounding illegal immigration right now, thought you all may be interested in this new development.

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  • windwaker24

    It has problems and should not be rushed through like Obamacare. I applied at a agency that used E-Verify last year, and I was rejected because the lady typed my number wrong. Minor problem and was fixed in a matter of seconds, but her response was more creepy. “SS numbers getting rejected happens A LOT.” A LOT????? And not because of typos. I doubt there are many illegal aliens registering at temp agencies which means actual citizens somehow are getting rejected too.

    • Scope

      with the Obama administrations goal to allow as many illegals to escape any radar the system can’t be trusted in this current admin. Yet the HHS makes these big fancy statements that the employers will be held responsible. In it’s current form, the system is untrustworthy and unworkable. With the right admin. controlling it, and the proper resources put toward it could be a very valuable tool for enforcement though.

    • westcoastpatriette

      it has some good features in it that would include identifying when someone’s using a fake SSN or if multiple people are using the same number. Also, in the last few years, they have tweaked and improved the system so it has only a 1% error rate.

      I hope the bill succeeds as it would finally put in place a unified, fair system to keep unauthorized workers out of the workplace.

      With respect to the screachers who are already yelling that this is big gov turning employers into immigration cops, that’s baloney. All it does is help them verify if the person is authorized to work in the U.S. And if not, they must let them go–there is no requirement that they report anything to ICE, Homeland Security, etc.

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